I’d kind of see that as a bonus. Some time to bond while on a nice vacation on someone else’s dime would be cool especially if it meant not having to deal with the ex and the new guy as much. Definitely don’t go if you’re not going to be civil with the ex and him though (which would be understandable given the circumstances). Ruining the trip for everyone else won’t gain anything other than possibly resentment from the kid.

Mayhem commercials are the only decent commercials there has ever been or will ever be. I don’t remember what brand they are advertising for but that’s beside the point.

You just toss it when the battery dies and get a new one.

One of our family friends owned a property I used to go camping on when I was a kid. There was a heavily wooded area with a creek running through it and there was a wide part of it that had a bend that went around a sandbar that was big enough to camp on. It was so quiet and peaceful there. Probably my favorite spot on the planet. I’ve found other places like that but they’ve been in public campgrounds and having tons of people around ruins the vibe.

Damn, I knew I messed up when I decided to be poor.

A rich white male.

I haven’t seen anything productive in any of the conversations about it I’ve looked at. Just fingerpointing at who’s to blame. It’s pointless to argue now.

Cool, now bring back single cab light trucks with full length beds.

I started playing X4 last weekend and was able to hyper-fixate on it for almost an entire day. It’s been like a year since I was able to do that on anything. It was nice to get my mind off shit for a while.

I live in a basement and it was dark enough I had to turn the lights on a 4:30 yesterday. That was depressing.

Laying down and watching an old black and white movie puts me out quick. I’ve been watching the old Universal monster movies this month and it has been a struggle lol. Also started taking melatonin and that helps me sleep too. If I can’t sleep due to stress/anxiety I imagine I’m dying and that seems to work.

I once spent like 8 months doing nothing but playing WOW and fill out job apps that I never heard back on. It was the happiest and most fulfilled I’ve ever felt. I had a ton of friends and I rose through the ranks of my guild and was eventually elected as leader. It actually helped me get over a ton of my social anxiety and build up my confidence to come out of my shell.

I don’t tell people that in real life because they’ll think I’m a loser but I honestly don’t think I’d be where I’m at today if I’d have spent that time working dead end fast food jobs or something instead but I can also definitely see how people fall into video game addiction problems.

I don’t understand how anyone can eat at there. The food is actually terrible. It was one of two non-fast food restaurants in the town I grew up in and my parents always suggested to meet up there for dinner and I was still always like… I’d rather eat at mcdonalds than that place…

They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.

Of course I want the communities I enjoy to grow but not at the expense of the platform. Too much growth and it’ll turn into another reddit situation with a bunch of unoriginal dipshits reposting meme responses to everything over and over. I’d rather things stay as they are then turn into that. At least now you can have interesting discussions with people when you do actually get a response.

“I’m just gonna vote for the last person that texted me” : the demo these assholes are targeting.

I don’t have a problem with technology advancing. I have a problem with the goal of all this new shit just being to extract more money out of me while providing as minimal product as possible. An easy example being smartphones. The potential in functionality for them is insane but I can’t buy one today that doesn’t have less features than my 2016 model and I’m constantly fighting permissions bullshit any time I try to do anything fancy with it.

It’s pretty trivial to just use an alternate browser for the garbage sites that don’t support FF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMoIMBBEXQ

I have a Surface 2. I only used the touchscreen when it’s in tablet mode or the dogshit type cover starts annoying the fuck out of me. I don’t miss it when I’m on my work laptop. As for moving the cursor and selecting things I just turn the cursor speed all the way up on every pc I use.